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Windows XP and Office 2003 End Of Life Looming

Windows XP and Office 2003 Extended Support services will be terminated by Microsoft on the 4th April 2014 The march of progress…. This will no doubt be old news for some of our readers, but we at Varidan...

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Everything you needed to know about malware but were afraid to ask.

Most internet users have heard of the term Malware, but what is it? What does it do? How can I protect myself and my organisation? I urge all readers to forward this article to their staff and friends. What is ...

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Say goodnight, to manual installs that is!

After more than 6 months of exhaustive testing in sandbox environments, we’re happy to announce, that last week marked the official roll-out of a utility named ‘Ninite’ across the Varidan network. The implement...

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Where’s the Start button? And what’s a Charm Bar?

If you’re like me, you don’t like change.  You like the warm security that familiarity offers, you also like intuitive design, things that make sense, just wanting to get on with it.  Now that you’ve ...

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How to fix the dreaded Windows Error: 0x800F082F

One error which strikes fear into the hearts of IT professionals is the dreaded “Unknown Error 0x800F082F” which sometimes occurs when attempting to install a service pack, or other Windows com...

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How to fix the Windows Update reboot prompt Loop

There’s been many questions asked in various websites regarding a problem whereby Windows Update keeps prompting you to restart your computer, even though you’ve just done it 300 times. You may reco...

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Beware the NUMA in 2008R2 SP1 Hyper-V

That is the warning I bring to bear regarding Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V. Recently, we had updated a client’s server to Windows 2008R2 SP1 and immediately after rebooting, the 2003R2 SP2 Guest VM ...

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Decommissioning an Exchange 2010 Server from the Domain/Forest

This blog is an instructional on how to remove Exchange 2010 Server from a domain, where it is not the last Exchange in the domain. The case scenario in this instance is a replacement exchange server. The previ...

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Warning: Apple iOS 6.1 Devices and Microsoft Exchange 2010

It has recently come to our attention that Apple mobile devices such as the iPhone and iPad running the latest operating environments (6.1 and 6.11) have a bug that is putting Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 ser...

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Outlook “Cannot open this item” error

Recently, we come across this error message in a users’ Outlook, which was a perplexing issue as it only appeared to affect emails and contacts that were created or modified after the last scheduled serve...